Re: Oracle products for stand-alone PC

They don't speak for me, so I don't speak for them.

In article <1993Jul5.142955.7218_at_cc.gatech.edu> debaud_at_cc.gatech.edu (Jean-Marc Debaud) writes:
>>Oracle sells their older Oracle 6 for DOS PCs. There will not be an Oracle
>>7 for DOS. Oracle 7 is available for OS/2. I do not know the current pricing.

And NetWare as well, NT real soon now (it's currently Beta).

>As far as I have heard, there are talks about proting O7 to the
>dos environment now due to strong demand. Or at least most of it
>since I don't see how they would implement remote DB integrity.

The current plan is to port O7 to the 32-bit "Chicago" version of MSDOS.

>Yes Oracle works with os/2 but the future of that OS is in doubt, sadly.

Unfortunately, OS/2 hasn't caught on as well as I hoped it would, but it is certainly not a "dying OS". Oracle has consistently put considerable effort behind OS/2 and as far as I can tell, it intends to do so for the forseeable future.

>There was also talk about lowering the RDBMS price due to the
>price of the competition (much lower) but no action has been
>taken yet.

I'm not in any position to know whether this is true or not. However, I've never seen the big O lower its prices due to competitive pressure, and I'd be surprised to see it do so now, when sales are at an all time high.

Dave Criswell
An employee of, but not a spokesman for Oracle Corporation Received on Tue Jul 06 1993 - 00:00:17 CEST